Sunday, June 3, 2007

Pulizter

1. 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout2. 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz3. 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy4. 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks5. 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson6. 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones7. 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides8. 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo9. 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon10. 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri11. 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham12. 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth13. 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford14. 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields15. 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx16. 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

17. 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

18. 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike19. 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos20. 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler +/-

21. 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison22. 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor23. 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry24. 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie25. 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy26. 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker27. 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike28. 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole29. 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer30. 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever31. 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson32. 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow33. 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara34. 1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty35. 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner36. 1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford37. 1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday38. 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron39. 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud40. 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter41. 1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau42. 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner43. 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

44. 1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

45. 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury46. 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor47. 1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee48. 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor49. 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner50. 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway51. 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk52. 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter53. 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie54. 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens55. 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener56. 1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren57. 1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey58. 1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin59. 1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair60. 1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow61. 1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck62. 1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings63. 1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand64. 1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell65. 1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis66. 1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson67. 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller68. 1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling69. 1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck70. 1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes71. 1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge72. 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin73. 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder74. 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield75. 1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis76. 1925 So Big by Edna Ferber77. 1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson78. 1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather79. 1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington80. 1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton81. 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington82. 1918 His Family by Ernest Poole

flags

I, like many, do not like to be told what I can or cannot read.
Most books are going to have some language, a little innuendo (because, in fact, sex does exist), and at least one serious theme. I’m not going to point out every single little thing I come across, but I have found, on several occasions, that it would have been nice to know, before I cracked the cover, some of the flags. There are two levels for each category. So, there you are. Make of them what you will.